Here’s what Britt teaches his students about meteorites: Pallasite “There are lots of things we don’t understand yet, but that’s what science is about.” “When you ‘see’ the oldest thing in the solar system, it’s more concrete, more tactile,” Britt says. The current collection of 15 meteorites, which all date from the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, come primarily from northern Africa and China, and represent a diversity of ancient cosmic materials that are valuable for study. “Meteorites tell us about the mineralogy of asteroids - how they’re put together, how strong they are and how they’ll react to shock,” says Britt, who has worked for NASA on Mars missions, including Pathfinder, the Spirit rover and the Phoenix lander, and was named to Pluto’s New Horizons mission team. To help his students better comprehend the composition of asteroids, planets and other celestial bodies, Professor Daniel Britt began building a collection of meteorites in 2003 with the help of Guy Consolmagno, curator of the Vatican’s meteorite collection. In the study of physics, some of the best lessons fall from the sky. Such Great Heights Astronaut Nicole Stott ’92 on the 104 days she spent in space. Go for Launch Professor Joshua Colwell partnered with Blue Origin to make history.

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